Yet somehow, “straight news anchor” Kelly never told the “we report, you decide” network’s viewers the very relevant backstory about where Clarke was coming from.

Kelly listened quietly as Clarke made what sounded a lot like a stump speech that repeatedly attacked Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett

CLARKE: When you’re a liberal politician, the tendency is that when you have no solutions to what’s going on in a city, a state, a country, you blame political adversaries. This was a cheap shot by Mayor Tom Barrett. But it’s important to add that Tom Barrett lost twice in a race for governor against Scott Walker.

Clarke also sneered that Barrett is on the board of Michael Bloomberg’s group, “Mayors Against The Second Amendment” and was “just regurgitating” Bloomberg’s “anti-gun talking points.” In fact, Bloomberg’s group is called “Everytown for Gun Safety.” But Kelly did not correct Clarke’s smear.

Clarke also gratuitously added that Barrett has been mayor for 10 years and “It’s his failed policies that have led us to where we’re at today.”

Kelly helpfully added to the meme. She said, “The uptick in crime in Milwaukee has been significant, according to those who are in the know in the area.” She read off some statistics about the homicide rate, auto theft rate, burglary rate and rape rate as being at varying degrees worse than New York City’s. “Basically, they’re saying Milwaukee is a dangerous place to live. They lay the blame at the feet of the mayor! You, as the sheriff of Milwaukee County, what do you say?”

Clarke went on to lavish praise on Wisconsin governor and likely 2016 presidential candidate Scott Walker. Clarke said he worked with Walker when he was the County Executive of Milwaukee. “Public safety was always at the top of then-County Executive Walker’s priority list.” Clarke said admiringly. He even sounded like he was endorsing Walker for president: “I would think that as president of the United States, he is gonna have that same wherewithal to listen to his commanders, his military commanders on the ground, listen to Border Patrol agents and then rely on them to make his decision. …Scott Walker will take responsibility for his decisions and that’s a very important trait that I like about Scott Walker.”

So was Clarke trolling for an endorsement from Walker? A job on the Walker campaign? Kelly didn’t ask.

For “balance,” Kelly’s next guest was “Democratic strategist” Bernard Whitman. Kelly’s first “question” for Whitman set the tone: “So isn’t this the mayor politicizing a tragedy?”

Whitman said no and he made a decent argument. But he never called out the propaganda ploy being pulled on the viewers. As for Kelly, she repeatedly challenged Whitman in ways she did not with Clarke.

Watch it below, from the April 15 The Kelly File.

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The good people in America can see thru the Megyn Kelly’s bias. She is not a journalist but a evil cunservative. If this woman had her way America would be taken back to middle ages. The Sheriff went unchallenged. That was done on purpose by Mrs. Kelly cunservative. This woman is such a evil bastard.

Bimbo Megyn Kelly is hysterically trying to attack the left anyway she can, This time aiming at the Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barett. Sheriff Clarke should lose his election. It’s not Bimbo Megyn’s job to tell people how to vote and whom to support. She is just stupid blonde. Just read the news, you nasty woman.

“When you’re a conservative politician, the tendency is that when you have no solutions to what’s going on in a city, a state, a country, you blame political adversaries.”

I mean, we see that attitude ALLTHETIME.

Scott Walker, for instance. He has NO solutions to the problems his state faces, so he just deflects and does a song and dance, blaming HIS political adversaries for “obstructing” his plans.

Hell, the GOPers in Congress. Vote to repeal the ACA more than 50 times, but, at NO point, offer a serious alternative BEFORE repealing the Act.

And, despite massive budget problems, many (red) state governors and legislatures are wasting time proposing and passing bills that do NOTHING to address their budget problems while blaming political adversaries who challenge these nonsense bills (such as the various “discriminate against the gays if you’re acting under religious beliefs” bills and “personhood” bills) for not letting these bills get passed so “the governor/legislature can get around to dealing with the serious issues.” (It’s just too bad that regular people—ie, “the voters”—don’t get the luxury of paying more attention to the silly things than they do the important things. I mean, if a tree falls on your house, you have to figure out how to pay for the repairs before or even instead of when you’re going to go see “American Sniper” for the umpteenth time.)

This was a pretty obvious attempt to just attack Barrett, using a known right wing local voice to do it. We should note that Kelly followed this up last night with another cheap shot, this time attacking the Police Chief and using Dana Loesch to do it – without providing any alternative viewpoint to Loesch’s hysterical rant.

Interesting that comments by the Mayor and the Chief of Police are to be attacked and reviled as partisan pettiness, but cheap shots from right wingers (particularly uninformed ones like Loesch) are to be celebrated as bastions of truth and reliability.

I agree this is likely an attempt by Fox News to campaign against Barrett’s re-election. It will be more interesting to see what happens if Walker steps away from the state for the considerable time he’ll need when he attempts to be a presidential candidate.